Re: Siege of Whitewall

From: Ian Cooper <ian_hammond_cooper_at_...>
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 13:55:18 -0000

Jorganos wrote:
> Lunar field engineers build up counter ditches, prepare the great
> magical ramp, mount missile throwers... Famine somehow never enters
> the city in a serious way. With all those Lunar-friendly Volsaxi
> tribes nearby, I keep wondering how and why.

Asrelia's Storage Pits perhaps. Seriously I added them to Dragon Pass derived from the real-world grain storage pits found at Iron Age settlements. Some hill forts had hundreds of them - possibly more than enough for a long siege.

But IMO John is right The Siege of Whitewall has a lot of dramatic potential for telling stories. Think of the precedents in history and literature: Alesia, Masada, The Alamo and Helm's Deep to name but a few.